Wangari Maathai Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

  Wangari Maathai

  Fighting, Rights, People

• Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff from the thigi tree that, when placed between two disputing sides, caused them to stop fighting and seek reconciliation. Many communities in Africa have these traditions.

  Wangari Maathai

  Fighting, Two, Community

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

• It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not occur ... protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace. Those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act. We must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

  Wangari Maathai

  Giving Up, War, Fighting

  "Kenyans gather to say goodbye to Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai" by Faith Karimi, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2011.

• When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

  Wangari Maathai

  Fighting, Land, Oil

• Tradition sometimes excludes the girl child from inheriting; or single women may not want to be perceived as pursuing too much property. The law has come a long way in favor of the woman, but it is the tradition, the attitudes, that we often have to fight.

  Wangari Maathai

  Girl, Attitude, Children

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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